Chris Morris

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull faces a ''challenging'' term dealing with a potentially feisty new council, after seven new faces emerged from a major clean-out at the Dunedin City Council.

There are calls for online voting to be fast-tracked as Dunedin City Council voting returns slump towards a record low in this year's local body elections.

Dunedin city councillors burst into applause as it was confirmed yesterday international credit agency Standard and Poor's had lifted its negative outlook for the Dunedin City Council.

An investigation into the Dunedin City Council's refusal to release emails about the Dalai Lama's visit to Dunedin looks set to drag on into next year.

A Dunedin City Council manager says he is being ''dragged through the wringer'' over questions about his private contract to supply vending machines at Moana Pool.

The outgoing chief executive of Dunedin Venues Management Ltd, which runs Forsyth Barr Stadium, has been stripped of most of his media duties ahead of his premature departure from the role.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull led a high-spending campaign for re-election that cost his Greater Dunedin grouping more than $77,000, it has been confirmed.

Dunedin city councillor Hilary Calvert's push to ask businesses what they need to grow appears to be gaining traction.

The man running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium has been granted an early release from his contract, and will follow in the footsteps of another manager who has already departed, it has been confirmed.

Dunedin City Council chief executive Paul Orders says he is leaving an organisation that has turned a corner.

The man running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is joining the opposition in Christchurch, it has been confirmed.

The operator of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is locked in a contract dispute with the company that controversially ousted Dunedin audiovisual providers for work at major city venues.

A plan to replace hundreds of Dunedin's inner-city parking spaces with cycleways has been labelled ''utter lunacy'' by Golden Centre shopping mall general manager Simon Eddy.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull faces a fresh political scrap with some of his councillors over the search for the Dunedin City Council's next chief executive.